An orchestra of voices : making the argument for greater speech and press freedom in the People's Republic of China / Sun Xupei ; edited by Elizabeth C. Michel, with the assistance of Eric B. Easton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sun, Xupei.

Contributor:

Michel, Elizabeth C., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of the press--China.

Freedom of the press.

Government and the press--China.

Government and the press.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Other Title:

Speech and press freedom in the People's Republic of China

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

China's boldest advocate for press and speech freedom provides a collection of his 1981-1999 arguments for greater freedom of press and speech, as presented to China's government, Party officials, and its intellectual community. Sun is the former Director of the Institute of the Institute of Jouranlism and Communication and the original Director of the Committee to Draft China's Press Law. His published articles-and four new ones for this book-chronicle a continuum of painstaking, relentless, and, ultimately, influential logic. He elucidates the media's disastrous role in the Cultural Revolution, the characteristics of socialist press freedom, the counter-productivity of centralized media governance, the need for law and for media diversity, and the freedoms necessary to empower the proletariat. Sun's intention is not opposition. He evokes the country's founding premises, the principal power of the proletariat, and the pattern of early, market economy successes to chisel away at entrenched centralism and lingering feudalism. This collection offers rare entry into the mind of an exceedingly brave and principled man who-for 20 years-has declared those principles through unmitigating difficulty and dullness. An important think-piece for all scholars and researchers involved with press freedoms and contemporary China.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 On Socialist Press Freedom

2 The Proletariat's Struggle for Press Freedom

3 What Should Socialist Press Freedom Look Like?

4 Press Freedom Is a Process

5 Personal Opinions on Macro-Issues in Press Reform

6 Renewing Our Concept of Journalism

7 Effective Press Reform within a Socialist Market Economy

8 China's Legal System Concerning Press Law

9 The Difficulty of Writing Press Legislation in China

10 The Individual's Right to Reputation and the Press's Right to Report

11 The Viability of Limited Public Ownership and Interregional Development

Suggested Readings

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]) and index.

ISBN:

9798400693700

9781567509786

1567509789

OCLC:

55664200